Hi I am using fedora 4 on a hp laptop. My motherboard burned out.. When I had installed fedora on this machine I took the automatic partition option. I kept windows in a smaller partition and fedora used the rest. I wanted to get bak my data's puting my hard disk in an USB box and connecting it to another machine. I get 3 devices /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3 I can acce boot partition from the hard disk but not windows and not main fedora patition. (VolGroup00-LogVol00) {venus:root} mount /dev/sda1 mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs' {venus:root} mount /dev/sda2 {venus:root} mount /dev/sda3 mount: can't find /dev/sda3 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab I get boot partion in sda2 >From suse I can access windows partition in sda1 : ntfs filesystem type seems to be reconised I cannot access main partition (which is in sda3) using suse or fedora. In /var/log/messages I get Aug 21 09:37:47 venus kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. Aug 21 09:37:52 venus kernel: Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MHS2040AT D Rev: 0811 Aug 21 09:37:52 venus kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Aug 21 09:37:52 venus scsi.agent[9086]: disk at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.2/usb1/1-8/1-8:1.0/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0 Aug 21 09:37:52 venus kernel: SCSI device sda: 78140160 512-byte hdwr sectors (40008 MB) Aug 21 09:37:52 venus kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Aug 21 09:37:52 venus kernel: SCSI device sda: 78140160 512-byte hdwr sectors (40008 MB) Aug 21 09:37:52 venus kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Aug 21 09:37:52 venus kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 Aug 21 09:37:52 venus kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Aug 21 09:37:54 venus fstab-sync[9134]: added mount point /media/usbdisk for /dev/sda1 Aug 21 09:37:54 venus fstab-sync[9137]: added mount point /media/usbdisk1 for /dev/sda2 Aug 21 09:47:41 venus su(pam_unix)[9253]: session opened for user root by (uid=1000) Aug 21 09:50:00 venus kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds Aug 21 09:50:00 venus kernel: EXT3 FS on sda2, internal journal Aug 21 09:50:00 venus kernel: EXT3-fs: recovery complete. Aug 21 09:50:00 venus kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Aug 21 09:50:00 venus kernel: SELinux: initialized (dev sda2, type ext3), uses xattr Aug 21 09:57:49 venus su(pam_unix)[9427]: session opened for user root by (uid=1000) Aug 21 09:59:52 venus kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds Aug 21 09:59:52 venus kernel: EXT3 FS on sda2, internal journal Aug 21 09:59:52 venus kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Aug 21 09:59:52 venus kernel: SELinux: initialized (dev sda2, type ext3), uses xattr Using fdisk I get : {venus:root} fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 3206 25744131+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 * 3207 3218 96390 83 Linux /dev/hda3 3219 7296 32756535 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 2313 18579141 7 HPFS/NTFS Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 2314 2326 104422+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 2327 4864 20386485 8e Linux LVM I need to access main partition. Any help welcome. Andre _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/